Mold your life…
Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.
— Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
Progress in perfection…
Keep yourself faithfully in the presence of God; avoid hurry and anxiety, for there are no greater obstacles to our progress in perfection. Have an unlimited confidence in his mercy and goodness.
–Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
God takes pleasure…
God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, He will accommodate His steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you.
— Saint Francis de Sales, (1567-1622)
The deeper our faith…
The deeper our faith, the stronger our hope, the greater our desire, the larger will be our capacity to receive that gift, which is very great indeed. No eye has seen it; it has no color. No ear has heard it; it has no sound. It has not entered man’s heart; man’s heart must enter into it.
— Saint Augustine (354-430)
Misunderstanding God’s true nature…
Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God’s true nature. God’s heart is more gentle than the Virgin’s first kiss upon the Christ. And God’s forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
All spiritual or…
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
— Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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